TBT - The Basketball Tournament 2024

[GoBearcats31]

First round opponent will be announced tomorrow

Nasty Nati will play AboutBillions on Friday, July 19, at 8 p.m. ET. If Nasty Nati advances to the second round, they will face the winner of Brown Ballers and Red Rose Thunder on Sunday, July 21 at 4 p.m. ET on FS1.

The Cincinnati Regional championship game is Tuesday, July 23 at 7 p.m. ET.

The winner of the Cincinnati Regional will play the winner of the Dayton Regional in the quarterfinals, either in Dayton or Cincinnati, on July 29 or 30 (official game date, time, and location to be determined). The semifinals and $1 million winner-take-all championship game will be Aug. 2 and Aug. 4 in Philadelphia, Pa. at the Daskalakis Athletic Center.

https://gobearcats.com/news/2024/6/2...d-for-tbt.aspx


Nasty Nati's current roster includes:

• Mamoudou Diarra (2017-21)
• Keith Williams (2017-21)
• Jarron Cumberland (2016-20)
• Tre Scott (2016-20)
• Jacob Evans (2015-18)
• Troy Caupain Jr. (2013-17)
• Deshaun Morman (2013-15)
• Coreontae DeBerry (2014-16)
• Octavius Ellis (2011-16)
• Jaylen Adams (St. Bonaventure)
• Marquez Letcher-Ellis (Rice)
• Isaiah Miller (UNC Greensboro)

(Miller, Adams very good)

[Lobot]

MIssing Brooks on that roster. I wonder if he's coming in later?

[Carthage World]

MIssing Brooks on that roster. I wonder if he's coming in later?

The official roster with Brooks was released on Monday.

https://x.com/thetournament/status/1812894537951379527

No excuse not to make it to Philly this season. This is our strongest squad yet.

[Carthage World]

Nasty Nati will play AboutBillions on Friday, July 19, at 8 p.m. ET. If Nasty Nati advances to the second round, they will face the winner of Brown Ballers and Red Rose Thunder on Sunday, July 21 at 4 p.m. ET on FS1.

The Cincinnati Regional championship game is Tuesday, July 23 at 7 p.m. ET.

The winner of the Cincinnati Regional will play the winner of the Dayton Regional in the quarterfinals, either in Dayton or Cincinnati, on July 29 or 30 (official game date, time, and location to be determined). The semifinals and $1 million winner-take-all championship game will be Aug. 2 and Aug. 4 in Philadelphia, Pa. at the Daskalakis Athletic Center.

https://gobearcats.com/news/2024/6/2...d-for-tbt.aspx


Nasty Nati's current roster includes:

• Mamoudou Diarra (2017-21)
• Keith Williams (2017-21)
• Jarron Cumberland (2016-20)
• Tre Scott (2016-20)
• Jacob Evans (2015-18)
• Troy Caupain Jr. (2013-17)
• Deshaun Morman (2013-15)
• Coreontae DeBerry (2014-16)
• Octavius Ellis (2011-16)
• Jaylen Adams (St. Bonaventure)
• Marquez Letcher-Ellis (Rice)
• Isaiah Miller (UNC Greensboro)

(Miller, Adams very good)

Unlike the Villanova game in December, seeing the TBT at Drexel would be a very easy Philly trip for me by bus/train from NYC.

I hope we make it that far. I'd drop everything to see this group play for a million dollars.

[GoCats1994]

Tony Pike spoke with Kevin Johnson about this year's team on Tuesday.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/437-c...share&pr=false

[GoBearcats31]

Sounds like the squad will be short-handed to start things off, largely due to other basketball commitments for some of the guys (Evans, Scott, the UNCG kid)

[Lobot]

Sounds like the squad will be short-handed to start things off, largely due to other basketball commitments for some of the guys (Evans, Scott, the UNCG kid)

Letcher-Ellis is also unavailable.

[Carthage World]

Nasty Nati 30
About Billions 28

Halftime

One of the most ridiculous halves of basketball you could imagine. Both teams down to 6 total players after a multitude of ejections following a mini-brawl in the 2nd quarter.

Good news is that the ejections benefitted Nasty Nati because they only lost Diarra while AB lost at least 5-6 players who ran off the bench as all of the ruckus was going down.

Remaining NN players are Caupain, Cumberland, Morman, Oct Ellis, Deberry and Brooks.

[Lobot]

63-61 AB. Target score for the Elam ending is 68. This is as close as it's been since the half. Cumberland just freight trained his way to to and and 1 after a steal.

Update: Cumberland with the bank and we'rer up 64-63. Coming back from 16 down

[Lobot]

66-65 Nasty Nati . Morman fouls Trevor Moore for AB and 3 shots with a chance to win

[Lobot]

66-65 Nasty Nati . Morman fouls Trevor Moore for AB and 3 shots with a chance to win

Shoould have fouled AB coming down but 67-66 AB. Nasty Nati ball .TO and play for the win

[Lobot]

Multiple TOs on both sides and a foul on AB. Deberry at the line misses front end. AB wins it

[Carthage World]

Horrible, ugly, embarrassing loss. Cumberland missed his first 16 shots and was plain awful for the first 3 quarters.

[Lobot]

The ending of that game was pretty chaotic. Lots of turnovers, fouls, missed front ends, ill advised time outs from both teams. Nasty Nati came back from 16 down to take the lead with multiple chances to win and basically fumbled it away. I"m not sure if if it's archived.

At least the Xavier alum team got run off the court

[Lobot]

Was looking for the archive and just noticed that the coach of About Billions is MIke Pilgrim.